CHKDSK stops before "The type of the file system is NTFS."

[Guest]

Windows Vista Home Premium will not boot. Attempting to run the chkdsk from
the installation cd, the command takes. The HDD light flickers a second and
nothing happens afterwards.
After Seeing this I introduced the HDD to spinrite for about 4 ours and
found no errors and did the same with the fujitsu tools for the drive.
I was able to sector by sector clone the drive to another which has
obviously has the same problem. If I access either drive in a functional
Windows Vista system I obtain the event ID 137 from NTFS. A chkdsk or scan
of the disk will cause the other system to hang.
However, I have been able to copy all files from the sytem without error and
have verified that most of them are in good repair.
I assume that I have hit a bug in TFx but... what do I do next, I do not
really want to wipe this HDD.
AjJii

 

[Richard Urban]

You said you could copy the information. Do so! Then rebuild the drive from
scratch to try to salvage it. By this I mean

1. Delete all partitions from the drive until you have only unallocated
space available.

2. Create and format new NTFS partitions. This will give you a new MBR
and partition structure

3. Install this empty drive in another computer as a slave and run
chkdsk. If the drive still doesn't pass - retire the drive.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Image the drive, then wipe it and reload from the image. You can use many of
the available tools out there: True Image, Image for Windows, Ghost, etc.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com